Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AT Pesth. Hungary, piles have been
successfully driven by dynamite.
Prince Rupert, the coming King of
Bavaria, is apprenticed to a wood
turner in Munich and works daily at
| the bench.
There are thirty-five thousand per-
sons engaged in the laundry business in
Paris. The wages they receive amount
to about six million dollars annually.
The Queen of Italy lately sent a
novel from her own pen under an as
sumed name to one of the best Roman
| periodicals, and it was remorselessly
returned with the curt Endorsement,
''Cestinato'' -Rejecte Congregation
alist.
| There are reported to be at least
one hundred thousand lunatics in Rus
STA, of whom only about one-tenth can
be accommodated in asylums, and these,
for the most part are very Ineffective
| ly treated.
China has coded to Germany the
Chusan Islands on its eastern coast, a
very important acquisition for that
power Chusan was captured by the
British in 1910, and restored to China
| in 1886.
Oyster culture in the Baltic Sea
has proved wholly unsuccessful. The
! German Government promotes the
| raising of oysters in the North Sea,
where it owns fifty-one oyster beds in
all, but the product is not the best
~ Y. Ledger.
The old Cock Tavern in London
has been destroyed, but new tavern
bearing the same name has been opened
! across the street. All the fittings of
,, the celebrated old place, including
,, chimney piece, overmantel OF carved
oak paneling, seats and table, have
found a new abode over the way.
The Travellers Aid Society, insti-
tuted by Lady Frances Balfom, has for
two years done an excellent work in
befriending unprotected girls and wom-
en- travelling in England. and has now
extended it's good offices to embrace
the seaport towns. Three hundred
voluntary local agents are connected
! with the society.
"A colony of Wurtemberger engi-
neers in Palestine have made roads,
multiplied plantations, and so cleared
and cultivated the-Plain of Jezrel that,
in spite of the interference of the Latin
monks of Mt. Carmel, they have COM
pletely transformed it, and now have
prosperous colony there.-M Y Wit
ness.
In Great Britain butter is carried
in the mails at very low rates, and a
large number of dairy farmers send
butter to customers regularly in this
way. 1t is placed in small wooden or
metal packages, and the postage is
prepaid by stamps. By employing the
mail-package service the profits of
middlemen are saved, and consumers
get fresh butter all the year. Chicago
Times.
AT present asphalt is only OBJ
tanned from three places in Europe,
namely, Ragusa, in Dalmatia. and Val
de Travers and Seyssel, in the depart
ment of Aisne. in France. In Berlin
for street paving, the latter being only
used between the metals on the tram
ways. The wood paved streets in Ber-
lin only cover $4,000 square METERS
Chicago Herald.
Arrangements were some time
since made to improve the streets of
the Holy City. 1t now appears that
Jerusalem has at last yielded to the
progressive tendencies of the age. The
uneven and even dangerous condition
of its roadways, formed of rough
blocks of stone, is no more. Excellent
paving has been laid down in the
principal streets, and several of the
principal approaches, especially those
from Bethlehem and Hebron have been
widened. -Iedia'sapolts Journal